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She has empty toilet paper rolls on her hands and is pretending to be a robot. My kids are odd.

I was going to say, as a mother of three, that sounds completely normal to me.

At least Atlanta is losing. (Sorry, Ginger.)

There is only one true sport, and that is baseball. What happens to the Falcons has no effect on me, except in that I know some people who care. Since I also have friends who are made happy by a Falcons' loss, it's a wash.

In further "my mother" news, my brother got engaged to his girlfriend today. We all like her a great deal, but the FIRST THING my mother said when I talked to her was to complain that she had to wait 25 years into her current relationship to get a diamond that big.

Oh god, my own mother was snotty about my future sister-in-laws ring, about how cheap it was since it was many small shavings of diamonds instead of some big ridiculous thing. Yeah, it may not be worth as much, but it's certainly more aesthetically pleasing in my eyes, and apparently in the fiance's eyes.

Also, dude's a drug addict, what do you expect? His savings goes elsewhere, doncha know? (I still can't believe they're talking kids. Marriage and babies don't solve addiction!!!!).

Is Plei around? This recipe for orange marmalade calls for three pounds 12 ounces of sugar. IS THAT NORMAL?

Allyson, how much weight in oranges? If you have a lb of oranges, you, on average, need about 2 lbs + in sugar.

The ratio is like 1:2:2+, the last part is sugar, the middle is water that is used to soak the fruit. Usually after you soak the fruit and boil it off, it increases the weight of the fruit pulp. So if you start with one lb and then soak and boil in water then it will increase weight. Then you add the exact weight of the fruit pulp in sugar.

Whew. I have two pounds of oranges. So then that's right. Holy crap that's a lot of sugar.

This recipe is a little fussier than I've seen, but it confirms the ratio: [link]

I'm rewatching Blake's 7, and there's a scene where Blake and another shipmate are being held at gunpoint, and the morally dodgy member of the crew makes a trick shot (from where the baddies can't see him )to save them. When complimented on his aim, he says "I was aiming for his head."

I'm being told by a few insistent people that that is a trope (insert tvtropes link here) that both Firefly and B7 used. Is it still really a trope with that many similarities? Wouldn't homage be a likely term, especially when you consider Blake and his ragtag handful of a crew are bopping through space fleeing from the government?

I have also seen it that precisely close in The Mentalist, and I have no idea about the provenance there. Now, when Spencer makes a kill shot in Criminal Minds and deflects the compliment with "I was aiming for his knee"-- that is re-using the trope.